Consultant Community Paediatrician

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust; Moseley; On-site; GBP 85,000 - 115,000; Full time

Job summary

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust in Birmingham invites applications for three Consultant Paediatrician positions to join the Community Child Health team across East, South and West Birmingham.

The posts focus on neurodevelopment and neurodisability in locality and Special School clinics, with responsibilities around children in care and child protection and an on-call commitment for SUDIC.

Qualifications

• CCT in Community Paediatrics or Paediatric Neurodisability is essential.
• MRCPCH or equivalent qualification is required.

Responsibilities

• Work in neurodevelopment and neurodisability across locality clinics and Special School clinics.
• Involvement in care for children in care and child protection; on-call out of hours commitment for the SUDIC service.

Education

CCT in Community Paediatrics or Paediatric Neurodisability

MRCPCH or equivalent

Job description

Birmingham Community Healthcare (BCHC) NHS Foundation Trust provides a wide range of high quality, accessible and responsive community and specialist healthcare services across the diverse and culturally rich City of Birmingham and the wider West Midlands region.

The Children and Families Division brings together all Universal and Specialist Community Services for children and provides a co-ordinated approach for child health care. We maintain good links with the Clinical Commissioning Groups, the Local Authority and voluntary agencies providing care for children.

These consultant posts will join a team of 21 Consultant Paediatricians leading the Community Child Health Services in Birmingham. The posts will be based, one in East of the city, one in South and one in West.

The posts encompass work in the fields of neurodevelopment and neurodisability in locality based clinics and Special School clinics, children in care and child protection, with an on call out of hours commitment for the Sudden Unexpected Death in Childhood service.

A CCT in Community Paediatrics or Paediatric Neurodisability is essential and a higher qualification (MRCPCH or equivalent) is required.

Applications from Less Than Full Time candidates are welcome.

Birmingham Community Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust (BCHC) has more than 5000 staff working across Birmingham and the West Midlands in a wide range of community nursing and specialist healthcare roles. BCHC delivers over 100 clinical services, in people's homes, health centres, clinics and inpatient facilities. We deliver a wide range of services for children, young people, parents and families as well as adults and community services, two community hospitals, services for people with learning disabilities, the internationally recognised West Midlands Rehabilitation Centre and one of Europe’s leading Dental Hospitals and School of Dentistry. We deliver all of this with a commitment to integrated, personalised care that is rooted in our local communities. We have an ambition to deliver outstanding, integrated care as one of the key NHS providers in the West Midlands.

For further details / informal visits contact: Name: Dr Neal McCathie Job title: Divisional Medical Director Email address: [e-mail] Telephone number: 0121 466 6320